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Xylophones

1st & 2nd Graders are provided instruments for classroom use. This purchase is for home pracitce. An 8 note xylophone marked with the pitch letter on each bar. Two malletts are included.

Course Description: This class is part of a 7 year sequence (K-6) of music instruction designed to teach effective musical skills to children. It is structured so that their experience with music is a knowledgeable one with heightened capabilities to listen, sing, play, move to, write, and create music with a sense of joy and well-being as individuals and as secure participants and contributors to the group experience. This class focuses predominately on the development of musical skills through vocal music experiences, classroom instruments and the use of technology.

Course Objectives:1st grade general music students that take this course should be able to:

Perform folk tunes, rhymes and singing games primarily based on a pentatonic scale between Bb below middle C and the C above middle C.

Recognize, read and perform steady beat activities to include quarter and eighth notes and rest.

Sing know songs inside head while doing the beat and/or rhythm of the song.

Learn songs, chants, rhythmic and melodic echoes by rote, memorize and performed independently.

Improvise melodies and rhythms from texts such as "hello," names, colors, etc.

Move to the music in singing games, rhythm activities, simple dances and musical conducting.

XYLOPHONES

First grade students are playing xylophones during their music class. These instruments were introduced during the first marking period with proper playing techniques, setup and storage procedures, and work on basic theory to play the instrument. Then in the second marking period, the students are applying their knowledge by playing music on the xylophones preparing for their performance in the spring.

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